Re: ‘We Lost Three Days Waiting For That,’ June 27, If I ever have the misfortune to be the victim of a natural or man-made disaster I hope it’s in a Third World country. There, friends, relatives, neighbours and even strangers will try to dig me out with their bare hands if necessary, at risk […]

Back in February I asked readers of this blog who they thought would run for Liberal leader, and who they’d consider voting for. Admittedly, this is as far from a scientific poll as you’ll ever get, and I won’t pretend that the 500+ voters in this straw poll are all Liberals. But we’re not going […]

Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty would have had one thing in common with my mother. As the Premier outlined in a speech this week at the Dr. W. G. Williams Secondary School in Aurora, his government has an action plan on bullying. My mother — she’d be 106 today, if she were still alive — had […]

In July, Quebec’s Public Safety Minister Robert Dutil told reporters that his government was considering a “Plan B” in the (highly probable) event that the federal Tories scrapped the long-gun registry — the creation of a provincial registry. The Supreme Court has already ruled that firearms registration is a federal responsibility due to the public […]

Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak met with the National Post editorial board yesterday to discuss his election platform. What follows is a condensed excerpt of segments of that meeting. National Post: With some polls suggesting a minority government, have you reached out to the other parties to discuss possible co-operation? Hudak: No, that’s not […]

As we all know, Ontario is struggling to find new jobs for displaced industrial workers. I propose we put those people to work in the promising new market for tropical fruits and vegetables: pineapple, mangoes, hearts of palm, things like that. You may object: Ontario is not especially well-suited to growing such products. I answer: […]

Re: Ontario’s Cure For Medicare: Snitching, Aug. 17. In Ontario, it is perfectly legal to sell cartons of cigarettes to any wheezing adict who wanders into a convenience store. It is legal to sell booze to any trembling, jaundiced alcoholic who darkens the doorstep of a government-run liquor store. But if a private clinic tries […]

The current Ontario election campaign has all the excitement of, well, small-town Ontario in August. On this, I speak from experience: I live in Whitby, which at 111,000 souls isn’t actually that small, but feels like political zombie-land despite the fact that provincial voting day looms less than two months away. None of my neighbours […]